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“Markets will fluctuate,” was a saying attributed to the old Commodore himself, Cornelius Vanderbilt, more than a century ago. What Vanderbilt meant was, of course, that markets will, well … fluctuate. And a recent example of that can been seen in what happened to a good many Internet companies over the past month.

Now that Amazon.com Inc. has launched the Amazon Fire TV device, it’s time to look at what the one company that seemingly matters to everyone when it comes to cool tech gadgets has planned for its next foray into the set-top box market. That company, of course, is Apple Inc.

If you are a fan of the Fox TV network series “24,” which for each of eight seasons chronicled a day of action and heroics from super-agent Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland, and which concluded its network run in 2010, you have probably been excited at the upcoming return of the show, a 12-episode series called “24: Live Another Day,” slated to premiere May 5.

And if you are a Netflix
/quotes/zigman/87598/delayed/quotes/nls/nflxNFLX subscriber, you might have been refreshing your memory of Jack Bauer’s non-stop efforts to protect the U.S. and stop bad guys of all stripes by catching up on the series online. But you can’t do that any more. At least not on Netflix.

The once-a-year update to the U.K. inflation basket reveals the Brits growing taste for high tech and specialized food products, while there’s a waning love for some “old school”, pre-crisis items. The changes are meant to reflect up-to-date spending trends in the U.K., with the basket being used by the Office for National Statistics to calculate the rise or fall in consumer prices.

Netflix Inc.
/quotes/zigman/87598/delayed/quotes/nls/nflxNFLX just premiered the second season of its political drama “House Of Cards” on Valentine’s Day, with all 13 episodes of the show starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright available to watch in one long binge TV session, if you choose to do so.

That is, if you are able to see it.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the strain of carrying the massive amounts of Netflix traffic has led to an increase in slow video delivery over Verizon Communications’ FiOS system, in particular, and raised, again, the debate over who should pay for the delivery of all that Internet traffic.

Quarterly results for S&P 500 companies have been a mixed bag so far with slightly more than half of the companies beating estimates, which is in line with the pattern set over the past few cycles, according to analysts.

The stock rose more than $50 a share putting it close to the $400 level.

Netflix reported a fourth-quarter profit of $48 million, or 79 cents a share, on revenue of $1.18 billion. During the same period a year ago, Netflix earned $8 million, or 13 cents a share, on $945 million in sales.

Marc Faber has been known to pound the bear path and see bubbles almost everywhere he goes. Anyone hoping for vintage Faber wouldn’t have been disappointed by a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday. For starters, the man known as ‘Dr Doom’ visited some familiar territory, railing against Fed easing, which he says has created a two-tier economy.

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